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For Fintech, 2024 Was A Year of Hype, Hustle and Hard Truths. What’s Next In 2025?

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By Katherine Maslova This has been a year of rapid progress and high expectations for the fintech sector. So, despite being a sector with a strong concentration of AI leaders, fintech like 74% of companies across industries struggles to scale value. There’s also been lots of buzz and hard, painful truths learned.

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Marqeta buys fintech Power Finance in $275M all-cash deal, its first acquisition

TechCrunch

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. In other words, it provides the tools for companies — fintechs and otherwise — to provide cards, wallets and other payment mechanisms.

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Top tech trends powering the Middle East’s digital evolution by 2025

CIO

Fintech hubs like Dubai and Riyadh will continue attracting global and regional players. In the energy and utilities sector, sustainability goals, such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and UAEs Net Zero 2050, will drive investment in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-driven energy efficiency solutions.

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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

CIO

Similarly, the financial sector will see continued growth in fintech, digital payments and open banking, with cities like Dubai and Riyadh becoming central fintech hubs in the region.

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Affirm files to go public

TechCrunch

Again, comparing the company’s most recent quarter to its year-ago analog, Affirm’s net losses dipped to just $15.3 Affirm’s financials on a quarterly basis — located on page 107 of its S-1 if you want to follow along — give us a more granular understanding of how the fintech company performed amidst the global pandemic. million, $153.3

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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’

TechCrunch

It also acknowledged that it had engaged “an independent 3rd party firm to do a leadership and cultural assessment,” the results of which would be “taken into account to build a long-term sustainable and positive culture at Better.”. But the decision may be too little, too late. Securities and Exchange Commission. This was untrue,” she said.

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

TechCrunch

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. trillion per year investment gap in renewable infrastructure that is required in order to meet our net zero targets by 2050.